disyllable
Word with two
A disyllable is a word of two syllables.
Most English words are disyllables: happy, window, garden, begin.
The adjective form is disyllabic.
Also spelled dissyllable.
Two-syllable metrical foot
- trocheeStressed-then-unstressed foot
- spondeeDouble-stress metrical unit
- pyrrhicWon at excessive cost
- footLeg's lowest part
scansion · stress · accent · pentameter · tetrameter · trimeter · dimeter · hexameter
Clear vocal expression
- enunciationClarity of spoken words
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- accentRegional speech pattern
- intonationPitch variation in speech
vocalization · utterance · diction · elocution · inflection · speech · phonetic · spoken
Two successive verse lines
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- haikuJapanese seventeen-syllable verse
- limerickComedic five-line poem
- balladNarrative poem or song
quatrain · villanelle · cinquain · sestina · rhyme · verse · stanza · lyric
iamb
Two-syllable metrical foot
foot · scansion · stress · accent · pentameter · tetrameter · trimeter · dimeter · hexameter · anapest
articulation
Clear vocal expression
- enunciationClarity of spoken words
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- accentRegional speech pattern
intonation · vocalization · utterance · diction · elocution · inflection · speech · phonetic · spoken · oral
couplet
Two successive verse lines
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- haikuJapanese seventeen-syllable verse
- limerickComedic five-line poem
ballad · quatrain · villanelle · cinquain · sestina · rhyme · verse · stanza · lyric · ode
morpheme
Smallest meaningful language unit
trisyllable · diphthong · grapheme · allophone · homophone · homonym · synonym · antonym · polysemy · neologism
bipartite
Divided into two parts
divided · segmented · penultimate · ultimate · onset · coda · nucleus · rime
- syllablessyllabication, trisyllable, monosyllabic, polysyllabic, multisyllabic
- syllables & metertrisyllable, meter, iambic, trochaic, dactylic
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